The total of the amounts recommended for seacoast defenses and purposes other than Field Artillery is $103,501,468 less than the appropriations and authorizations for the current year; $67,392,937.42 less than the appropriations and authorizations requested.

The above reduction of $67,392,937.42 in the amounts estimated for seacoast defenses and other purposes is comprised principally as follows:

The committee recommends that the following portions of appropriations heretofore made for seacoast-defense purposes, which are unexpended and unallotted, be covered into the Treasury:

LIMITATIONS.

Limitations with respect to expenditures or legislative provisions within clause 2 of Rule XXI of the House, not heretofore enacted, are recommended as follows:

On page 2:

The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for "installation and replacement of electric-light and power plants at seacoast fortifications" and for "purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses" in the United States are consolidated and made available for the following purposes: For the installation and replacement of electric-light and power plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States; the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, including searchlights for antiaircraft defenses and accessories therefor; and the procurement and installation of soundranging equipment for use in the United States, the insular possessions, and the Panama Canal, and for salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other employees necessary to procure and install the same.

On page 3:

The Secretary of War is authorized to tranfser to the owners of the adjacent land, to complete consideration for the transfer to the United States of an easement in other land of said owners, the title of the United States to a right of way now owned by the United States and located between the tract of land known as the Laguna Merced Reservation and an abandoned public highway formerly known as Ocean House Road (also called Ocean Avenue) in the city and county of San Francisco, California.

On page 4, in connection with aviation stations:

Provided, That land may be acquired for the said stations only after a determination by the Secretary of War that sites on existing governmental reservations can not be utilized.

On page 4, in connection with the appropriation for mountain, field, and siege cannon:

Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $729,731,295 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.

On page 4:

Such naval ordnance and ordnance material as the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may determine necessary is authorized to be transferred from the Navy Department to the War Department: Provided, That if such ordnance and ordnance material is obsolete for naval purposes the transfer shall be made without reimbursement and payment to the Navy for other ordnance and ordnance material transferred hereunder shall be made only after estimates shall have been submitted to Congress and a specific appropriation for such payment shall have been made

On page 5, in connection with the appropriation for ammunition. for mountain, field, and siege cannon:

Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $1,793,734,550 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.

On page 6, in connection with the alteration and maintenance of mobile artillery:

Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $100,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.

On page 6:

The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for fortifications in the continental United States, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely, $2,000,000 for construction of gun and mortar batteries; $20,540.19 for procurement or reclamation of land, or rights pertaining thereto, and so forth; $1,995,000 for the construction of land defenses in the United States, and so forth; $400,000 for contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories; $3,744,000 for purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, and so forth; and $2,000,000 for the alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, and so forth; in all, $10,159,540.19.

On page 9:

The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for fortifications in the insular possessions, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely, $800,000 for purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, and so forth; and $775,000 for alteration and. maintenance of the seacoast artillery, and so forth; in all, $1,575,000. On page 11:

The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for fortification of the Panama Canal, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely: $1,500,000 for the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, and so forth; and $600,000 for the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery, and so forth; in all, $2,100,000.

On page 13:

Sec. 4. That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of this act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion of an arsenal's equipment at a different rate: Provided, That no part of the appropriations made in this act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government

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while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other timemeasuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work.

RECAPITULATION.

The following tabulated statement gives in detail the appropriations for the current fiscal year (1918), the estimates for 1919, and the amount recommended in the accompanying bill for the fiscal year 1919:

FORTIFICATIONS APPROPRIATION BILL, 1919.

Fire-control stations and accessories, construction of.

3,756, 021.00

31,000.00

Electric light and power equipment and searchlights, maintenance, repair, tools, etc..

100,000.00

40,000.00

40,000.00

Sea walls and embankments, construction of.

93,000.00